This 2-day intensive will introduce more than a dozen different binds from historical to modern, from streamlined to sculptural. We’ll explore the connections between content and structure, outside vs. inside, and layers of meaning for interesting, engaging visual books.
Read the rest of this post...Japanese Puncture Book Workshop – Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA – August 13, 2016
This all-day workshop will explore a beloved book structure: the Japanese puncture (or “stab”) binding. This technique is especially useful as it joins individual sheets into a text block. The sheets can be edited and sequenced by the artist, then bound, resequenced, and then bound again and again! Perfect for visual journals, print collections, photo albums, signature books, and upscale scrapbooking, you will find the Japanese puncture book has endless uses. Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Mass. with Cristina Hajosy on Saturday, August 13, 2016
Read the rest of this post...Commissioned Book Arts – SECHC 2016 HealthCare Hero Awards – Presentation Portfolios
It’s been lovely to work with South End Community Health Center again this Spring. I was commissioned to create 16 hand-bound presentation piece for their HealthCare Hero Awards Ceremony. The process began with a vibrant color photograph of a building mural. A Dream of Sunday Afternoon in Blackstone Park (1998) The mural was directed by Heidi […]
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Flag Books – Saturday, May 21, 2016
Flag books have wonderful sculptural possibilities. With multiple angles of view, they provide interesting double narrative potentials, contrasting viewpoints, or “yin and yang”, if you will. Viewers enjoy the visual movement and performative qualities of flag books. They beg the viewer to play and to keep interacting with the artwork. There so many approaches to content. Excellent for creative poetry, wish lists, sweet nothings, photographs, abstract designs, and more! Private Bookmaking Workshop with Cristina Hajosy at Hajosy Arts on Saturday, May 21, 2016.
Read the rest of this post...Reminder! This Saturday – Paper Marbling – in my studio April 2, 2016
Spend the morning learning the process or jump right in, if you’re familiar with the materials. This workshop is structured to be an introduction for beginners or an open studio for intermediate or advanced students. Fostering an open, relaxed environment where all levels of artists can learn and share ideas, producing beautiful papers, and expanding your art practice; that’s what it’s all about. Paper Marbling with Cristina Hajosy
Read the rest of this post...Altered Books – Adult Workshop – The Eliot School – Sunday, May 1, 2016
Come join Cristina’s altered book class! Transform books, old or new, into art objects. The book becomes a canvas, a sculpture or a reliquary of personally meaningful content. Draw inspiration from the book’s author or content, or purely use the book as a structure. Incorporate paper cutting, collage, bookmaking and other processes. Cristina will have books on hand, or bring your own, along with small objects and images to include. Transform used books into art objects. Learn bookmaking, paper cutting, drawing, collage and decollage techniques to reinvent used books into something new. Sunday, May 1, 2016 from 9am to 3pm
Read the rest of this post...Private Workshop – Paper Marbling – Saturday, April 2, 2016
Spend the morning learning the process or jump right in, if you’re familiar with the materials. This workshop is structured to be an introduction for beginners or an open studio for intermediate or advanced students. Fostering an open, relaxed environment where all levels of artists can learn and share ideas, producing beautiful papers, and expanding your art practice; that’s what it’s all about. Paper Marbling with Cristina Hajosy
Read the rest of this post...New Book Arts Workshops – Fruitlands Museum – Harvard, MA
This all-day workshop takes the bookmaking process from start to finish. Hand stitching is a technique for sewing the sections, or “signatures,” of a book together. This workshop will cover four different stitch patterns on both soft and hard covers. The pamphlet, long stitch, the chain stitch with beads, and the “Dos Equis” will be completed.
Read the rest of this post...Paper Marbling – Adult Workshops – The Eliot School – Spring and Summer 2016
Paper Marbling – Adult One-Day Workshops The Eliot School, 24 Eliot St., Boston (Jamaica Plain, off Centre St.), MA 02130 Create beautiful swirls and mottling colors on paper with marbling. Learn “ebru”, the Turkish-style of marbling, on water thickened with carrageenan (Irish moss). Experiment with a range of materials, colors and papers to create […]
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Artist’s Books – Flag Books – November 11, 2015
Flag books have wonderful sculptural possibilities. With multiple angles of view, they provide interesting double narrative potentials, contrasting viewpoints, or “yin and yang”, if you will. Is it some type of struggle, or perhaps a union? Viewers enjoy the visual movement and performative qualities of flag books. They beg the viewer to play and to keep interacting with the artwork. There so many approaches to content. Excellent for creative poetry, wish lists, sweet nothings, photographs, abstract designs, and more!
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Body Books – Visual Journaling about the Body – September 15, 2015
While many artists use a journal for collecting their thoughts, reflecting on their artistic process, or sketching ideas for future work, a journal can be the final piece of art as well. This one-day workshop will investigate the relationships between the artist, the journal and specifically, the human body. Whether your own body, someone else’s or even an imaginary one…humanity is wide open with its infinite diversity. Come join Cristina Hajosy in her home studio. Tuesday, September 15, 2015 from 10am to 4pm
Read the rest of this post...Experimental Printmaking (and a Book) – Adult Workshop – Brookline Adult & Community Education – Fall 2015
Experimental Printmaking (and a Book) – New Adult Workshop at Brookline Adult & Community Education, 4 Tuesdays from September 29 – October 20, 2015 from 6:30 – 9:00pm Printmaking is a process of creative discovery because one can never be sure of what each print will bring. Often, the more fun you have, the better the artwork becomes. As you create and manipulate a series of images, you will become a better image-maker as you work on composition, texture, mood, process, and outcome Repeating an image or similar motifs or symbols always leads to an interesting collection. Conceptual and abstract ideas find a way to enter the process with this relaxed, fun experiment.
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